Study Guide 3

French Space

Court and Garden: the French Hôtel

• Paris: Hôtel Lambert (Le Vau, 1640-44)
• Paris: Hôtel de Beauvais (Le Pautre, 1652-55)

  Related terms: hôtel, absolute monarchy, corps de logis, enfilade

  Artstor Image group: french space

  On-line resources:

  • Bourbon dynasty, Louis XIII
  • Map of France in the 17th century
  • Plan of Paris in 1618
  • Sale of Hôtel Lambert controversy, from BBC news
  • Galerie d'Hercule at Hôtel Lambert
  • Hôtel Lambert sold to Qatari

The French Formal Garden: Vaux-le-Vicomte

• Vaux-le-Vicomte: Château (Le Vau, Le Nôtre, Le Brun, 1656-61)

Artstor Image group: vaux

On-line resources:

• Louis XIV, (description)
• Nicolas Fouquet
• Official website of Vaux-le-Vicomte

Related terms: parterre, axis

Rome in One Palace: Constructing Power

• Versailles: Château (Le Vau, Le Nôtre, Le Brun, 1661ff)
• Versailles: Galerie des Glaces (Hardouin-Mansart, 1678

Artstor Image group: versailles

On-line resources:

• Official Website of Versailles
• 360 of renovated Galerie des Glaces (also accessible via Versailles website)
• The Machine de Marly, which supplied the fountains at Versailles
• Comment faire venir l'eau a Versailles?
• royal academies

Garden Propaganda: Uses of Versailles

Louis XIV, Way of Showing the Gardens of Versailles

Court Culture: Living at Versailles

Matronage and "architecture à la française"

• Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, mother of Louis XIV, regent 1643-51, daughter of Phillip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria
• Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France, 1642-61
• France declares war w/Spain, 1635
• La Fronde, 1648-53

Paris: Val de Grâce (F. Mansart, Lemercier, Le Muet, Le Duc, 1645ff., ded. 1710)

On-line resources:

• Richelieu, Mazarin
• Val de Grâce description (French) w/good image links

Rocaille: Semantics of the Interior

• Louis XIV (1643-1715), Queen Marie-Therèse
• Louis XV (1715-74) Queen Marie Leszczinska
• Louis XVI (1774-92) Queen Marie Antoinette

 

• Hotel Lambert interiors:
  • library, salon, Cabinet de l'Amour, Cabinet des Muses
• Versailles interiors:
  • Galerie des Glaces, Salon de la Paix, Salon de la Guerre, c. 1678,
  • Salon d'Hercule, 1710
  • Louis XIV Bedchamber, 1701
  • Queen's Bedchamber, 1730s-50s (Marie-Therèse ceiling, Marie Leszczinska ptgs. by Boucher and boisierie, Marie-Antoinette furniture and fireplace;
  • Louix XV "Petit Apartment," 1738 (Study and Cabinet Pendule)
• Paris: Hôtel Soubise (Boffrand, 1735)
• Munich: Nymphenburg Schloss, Amalienburg hunting pavilion (Cuvillès, 1734-39, stucco by J.B. Zimmerman), Spiegelsaal (Hall of Mirrors)

  Related terms: architectonic, cartouche, rococo, cove cornice, genre pittoresque

  Artstor Image group: rococo

Die Wies: Pilgrimage Church (Zimmermans, 1746-54)

Related terms: CounterReformation, de-materialization, scagliola

Artstor Image group: zimmerman

On-line resources:

• Map of Central Europe c. 1700
• Die Wies kirche:
  • Official website
  • Virtual Reality Tour (Williams College)
  • Photo gallery (Alfred Molon)

• Thirty Years War, 1618-48, Protestant vs. Catholic, succession struggle in HRE

Bamburg: Vierzehnheiligen Pilgrimage Church (Balthasar Neumann, 1743-77)

Wurzburg: Residenz: Kaisersaal, Stair hall, Weissersaal, Court Chapel (Neumann, 1732 begun, stucco Antonio Bossi, frescoes Giambattista Tiepolo 1750-53)

Related terms: prince bishop, Schonborn family, Count Friedrich von Greiffenklau, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa m. Beatrix of Burgundy 1156

Artstor Image group: neumann

On-line resources:

• Virtual Reality tour of Wurzburg Residenz by VR Artist
• Wurzburg Unesco site on Palaces of Bavaria

Roman Holiday: Soufflot

• Louis XV, 1715-74 Mme. de Pompadour, king's mistress as of 1745; brother Marquis de Marigny head of King's Buildings Administration
• Excavations at Herculaneum (1738) and Pompeii (1748)
• Publication of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prima parte di Architettura e Prospettive (1743) and Varie Vedute di Roma Antica e Moderna (1745)
• French Academy in Rome (est. 1666; architects accepted 1720), Giovanni Panini teacher in perspective

• Paris: S. Sulpice, facade competition (Meissonier, 1726; Servandoni, 1736)
• Paris: Ste. Geneviève (Pantheon) (Soufflot, 1757-90s)

  Related terms: neoclassical, primitive hut, greco-gothic ideal

  Artstor Image group: soufflot

  On-line resources:

  • Piranesi exhibit in New York City Fall 2007

Revolution: Back to the Future

• Paris: Hôtel d'Uzès
• Paris: Barrière de la Villette, Barrière Monceau (Ledoux, 1784-99)
• Arc et Senans: Saltworks (Ledoux, 1773ff)
• Chaux, Ideal City Project (Ledoux, 1790s)

Related terms:French Revolution (1789-99), architecture parlante

Artstor Image group:ledoux